The respectable comment was conditional on it landing in the Linux kernel - I'd be impressed by that. I'm not really aware of any large projects written in Rust

The respectable comment was conditional on it landing in the Linux kernel - I'd be impressed by that. I'm not really aware of any large projects written in Rust, which I find to be a bit of a red flag. There was a project to re-write all the core-utils and such from Gnu in Rust, but I don't think it's gone anywhere. It wouldn't be that much fun because you'd have to replicate all the long options and existing complexity.